Google Lighthouse Audit

Automatically test the speed of your public web pages and get daily or weekly detailed performance reports using Google's Lighthouse for Chrome. Ensure your website remains fast even as you add new features and pages. Export the result in ZIP and MHTML files

Use Cases & Benefits of Lighthouse Audits

➡️ Performance Insights: Google Lighthouse provides valuable performance metrics and recommendations to optimize the loading speed and overall performance of web pages or web applications.

➡️ Accessibility Evaluation: It assesses web content for accessibility, identifying potential issues and offering suggestions to improve the user experience for individuals with disabilities.

➡️ Best Practices Analysis: Lighthouse evaluates a website against a set of best practices and industry standards, highlighting areas that can be improved to ensure compatibility, security, and usability.

➡️ SEO Optimization: It provides insights into how well a webpage is optimized for search engines, offering suggestions to improve metadata, headings, and other elements that impact search engine rankings.

➡️ Progressive Web App (PWA) Assessment: Lighthouse evaluates the readiness and quality of a web application to function as a Progressive Web App, including offline support, push notifications, and other PWA features.

➡️ Usability and User Experience (UX) Evaluation: Lighthouse analyzes a website's UX, identifying issues related to mobile-friendliness, tap targets, font sizes, and other aspects that affect the overall usability and user experience.

Sample input

The actor generates the report when you provide at barest minimum, the URL(s) of the site. You can either choose between either mobile or desktop mode.

1{
2    "device": "desktop",
3    "maxConcurrency": 2,
4    "maxRequestRetries": 3,
5    "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 500,
6    "proxyConfig": {
7        "useApifyProxy": true
8    },
9    "urls": [
10        "https://apify.com/",
11        "https://github.com"
12    ]
13}

Output

The result, a ZIP file containing the actual report file, is stored to the KeyValueStore with a filename similar to report-apify.com-2023-06-07-16-51-45-815-513c73432e.zip. Download the ZIP file and extract the MHTML file containing the actual audit report.

Cost of usage

Apify generously offers you $5 free usage credits monthly. From our tests, you can run up to 1,000 audits.